Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -54 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,562 1,887 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 4.35% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 4.67% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 981 2,710
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,374 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.75% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 1,427 £75,000 +3.45% 516
UK excluding London -104 723 £67,374 -3.75% 333
London +1 715 £85,000 - 242
Work from Home -33 674 £69,310 -0.99% 277
North of England -63 321 £69,310 -3.74% 111
South East -54 176 £67,500 - 92
North West -61 165 £75,000 +7.14% 77
Yorkshire -30 94 £69,305 -4.41% 24
Midlands -87 79 £67,500 - 45
South West -83 66 £52,500 -23.39% 36
North East +5 62 £65,000 -9.72% 11
West Midlands -60 56 £77,500 +10.71% 25
East of England -24 40 £60,100 -1.88% 12
Scotland -67 28 £62,500 -20.70% 17
East Midlands -63 22 £65,000 - 20
Wales -39 10 £53,171 +2.25% 10
Northern Ireland -35 8 £62,500 +25.00% 11
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.09%) Confluence
3 14 (0.90%) IIS
4 13 (0.83%) Apache
5 12 (0.77%) CMS
5 12 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.64%) JBoss
6 10 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.38%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Camunda
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.38%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.064%) Actimize
5 1 (0.064%) Endur
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.064%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 838 (53.65%) AWS
2 648 (41.49%) Azure
3 308 (19.72%) GCP
4 245 (15.69%) Serverless
5 156 (9.99%) SaaS
6 139 (8.90%) GitHub
7 133 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (6.53%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
12 70 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (3.14%) Azure AKS
16 46 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
17 44 (2.82%) Datadog
18 42 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.84%) Broadband
2 22 (1.41%) Network Security
3 11 (0.70%) DNS
3 11 (0.70%) MQTT
4 8 (0.51%) HTTP
4 8 (0.51%) VPN
5 7 (0.45%) DHCP
5 7 (0.45%) DMARC
5 7 (0.45%) Firewall
6 6 (0.38%) AMQP
6 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.32%) Internet
7 5 (0.32%) LTE
8 4 (0.26%) RFID
9 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.13%) SNMP
10 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (13.12%) NoSQL
2 198 (12.68%) MongoDB
3 181 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (5.95%) MySQL
5 80 (5.12%) Relational Database
5 80 (5.12%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
7 58 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (3.46%) DynamoDB
9 44 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
10 40 (2.56%) Redis
11 31 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 30 (1.92%) Big Data
13 24 (1.54%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.70%) Pinecone
15 10 (0.64%) DB2
16 8 (0.51%) Power BI
17 7 (0.45%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 198 (12.68%) Git
2 145 (9.28%) GitLab
3 130 (8.32%) Jenkins
4 57 (3.65%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.88%) JUnit
6 42 (2.69%) JIRA
7 37 (2.37%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.05%) Mockito
9 31 (1.98%) CircleCI
10 30 (1.92%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.92%) Maven
11 27 (1.73%) Claude Code
12 17 (1.09%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.02%) Selenium
14 15 (0.96%) JMeter
14 15 (0.96%) Vite
15 13 (0.83%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.58%) Postman
16 9 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 443 (28.36%) Finance
2 303 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 163 (10.44%) Banking
4 133 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.95%) Law
6 90 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.44%) Retail
8 76 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (3.59%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.94%) Back Office
11 32 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.47%) Marketing
14 19 (1.22%) Advertising
15 17 (1.09%) Billing
16 14 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.83%) Legal
18 11 (0.70%) Games
19 10 (0.64%) Front Office
19 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 535 (34.25%) Developer
2 397 (25.42%) Senior
3 326 (20.87%) Software Engineer
4 221 (14.15%) Architect
5 213 (13.64%) Lead
6 138 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 133 (8.51%) Java Developer
8 118 (7.55%) Senior Developer
9 117 (7.49%) Java Engineer
10 111 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 106 (6.79%) .NET Developer
12 86 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 62 (3.97%) Principal Engineer
15 61 (3.91%) Software Developer
16 57 (3.65%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
18 52 (3.33%) Senior Java Engineer
19 48 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.75%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (21.96%) React
2 341 (21.83%) .NET
3 283 (18.12%) Node.js
4 274 (17.54%) RESTful
5 271 (17.35%) Spring
6 242 (15.49%) Spring Boot
7 219 (14.02%) REST
8 204 (13.06%) Kafka
9 135 (8.64%) AngularJS
10 117 (7.49%) .NET Core
11 111 (7.11%) ASP.NET
12 109 (6.98%) Vue
13 86 (5.51%) ASP.NET Core
13 86 (5.51%) gRPC
14 84 (5.38%) HTML
15 75 (4.80%) CSS
16 67 (4.29%) .NET Framework
17 65 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
18 56 (3.59%) OAuth
19 54 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 446 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 271 (17.35%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.88%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.24%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.60%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.47%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 22 (1.41%) Blockchain
16 21 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.28%) PKI
18 19 (1.22%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.02%) Linux
2 40 (2.56%) Windows
3 20 (1.28%) Unix
4 8 (0.51%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) CentOS
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.32%) Debian
6 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 645 (41.29%) Agile
3 579 (37.07%) Software Engineering
4 575 (36.81%) DevOps
5 394 (25.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 392 (25.10%) Containerisation
7 360 (23.05%) Mentoring
8 328 (21.00%) Test Automation
9 310 (19.85%) Event-Driven
10 299 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 294 (18.82%) AI
12 288 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 279 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
14 203 (13.00%) Scrum
15 190 (12.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 187 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
17 181 (11.59%) Coaching
18 180 (11.52%) TDD
19 178 (11.40%) Clean Code
20 166 (10.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 529 (33.87%) Java
2 405 (25.93%) Python
3 355 (22.73%) SQL
4 344 (22.02%) JavaScript
5 320 (20.49%) C#
6 258 (16.52%) TypeScript
7 128 (8.19%) Go
8 51 (3.27%) Scala
9 49 (3.14%) PHP
10 46 (2.94%) C++
11 45 (2.88%) Bash
12 30 (1.92%) C
13 28 (1.79%) Ruby
14 23 (1.47%) PL/SQL
14 23 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 23 (1.47%) Rust
15 19 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.02%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.83%) Bicep
17 13 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 184 (11.78%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.01%) Degree
3 121 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 94 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 29 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.66%) CISSP
10 21 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.70%) CISM
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (0.51%) PhD
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
16 5 (0.32%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.04%) QA
2 43 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.18%) GDPR
4 33 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.47%) NIST
7 21 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.64%) NCSC
10 10 (0.64%) WCAG
11 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 456 (29.19%) Docker
2 17 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 488 (31.24%) Kubernetes
2 298 (19.08%) Terraform
3 88 (5.63%) Ansible
3 88 (5.63%) Grafana
4 49 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.60%) Argo
6 23 (1.47%) Kibana
7 15 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.83%) Puppet
9 12 (0.77%) Cilium
10 8 (0.51%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 3 (0.19%) Istio
12 3 (0.19%) Nagios
12 3 (0.19%) Rancher
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 176 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.23%) Google
3 51 (3.27%) Oracle
4 45 (2.88%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.34%) Splunk
7 20 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.02%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.90%) IBM
10 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.64%) Adobe
13 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
14 8 (0.51%) Cisco
14 8 (0.51%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.45%) Databricks
15 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
16 6 (0.38%) Palo Alto